Thanks for proving my point.

Being flawed doesn't wipe away anything, in fact neither does an apology. What it does do however, is allow for grace (well a person showing grace can do it without the apology but it sure makes it easier to do when the apology is present). And for the record, there is no such thing as toxic masculinity and rape…

True. It's the holier than thou self righteousness that irritates me so much.

Probably. The American comment was a counterpoint to the idea that Americans are somehow more generous and kind than other peoples. And I think that the "gory and torture-y" aspects of his movies are a reflection of the battles with whatever demons he contends with. It's perhaps the main trigger point for his sinking…

I can only go off of what the man said. I have no idea what he has done to change his life and clean it up. That being said, I would likely become irritable if I had worked hard to change my life, apologized for my actions, attempted to move on and to write a better chapter, but people continually threw my past in my…

I always try to allow for people to change. I have known a few alcoholics and their personalities are completely different when they become sober. Were his words indicative of his views then, or were they indicative of his views while under the control of a substance that when abused changes the mental state of the…

No, just commentary from a person who is frankly tired of the pettiness and spite of the so called "average" American. The American ideal is far better than what we have become.
Look, you can read whatever you want into whatever I say, which you will anyway since you seem like the perpetually aggrieved type.

Interesting comments on here, and by interesting I mean idiotic. Mel Gibson, like everyone else in the world, is a terribly flawed man. He is a recovering, long time alcoholic, who said things in drunken rages that most find rightly offensive. He spends a few years getting sober and patching his life back together,…